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- verb Present participle of
underregulate .
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An intriguing footnote: As Banking Committee chairman in the 1990s, he delivered early warnings about the dangers of underregulating hedge funds and financial derivatives.
GOP Choices for an Obama Cabinet Gerald F. Seib 2008
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If you don't want the federal government taking over the role of basic regulation, then there may not be a need for the federal government to pass a law: each state, on its own, can strike a balance between overregulating (insurance companies leave the state and the price goes up) and underregulating
The Corner on National Review Online Ramesh Ponnuru 2010
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